Canopy-level photosynthetic compensation after defoliation in a tropical understorey palm

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Analyzing the significance of defoliation in growth, photosynthetic compensation and source-sink relations (2012, background): “Anten and Ackerly (2001) reported that partial defoliation (50 and 66% of leaves removed) in palm (Chamaedorea elegans Mart.) significantly increased the light available to the remaining leaves and light-saturated photosynthesis per unit leaf area by 10–18%.”
Light environment and tree strategies in a Bolivian tropical moist forest: an evaluation of the light partitioning hypothesis (2003, background): “This indicates that sapling growth is limited by the amount of light interception, and that leaf loss due to herbivory or leaf shedding might have important repercussions for plant growth (Anten and Ackerly 2001).”
Defoliation and ENSO effects on vital rates of an understorey tropical rain forest palm (2009, methodology): “However, very little work (Chazdon 1991; Endress et al. 2004a,b) has been done on the long-term effects of repeated defoliation on vital rates (Ticktin 2004), even though defoliation is often recurrent and can be frequent (Anten & Ackerly 2001).”